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...understand fully the theological thinking that underlies the council's spirit of renewal. Paul's favorite Catholic thinkers are Mantain and Etienne Gilson, who are radical enough by the standards of Italian textbook theology but outdated in comparison with the present-day work of Schillebeeckx. Yves Congar Karl Rahner and Hans Kiing...
...freely admit it. "It's not that we've lost luster," says one prominent U.S. Jesuit theologian, "but others have made advances." The Jesuits can still boast proudly of having some of the church's brightest intellectual luminaries, ranging from such heady European theologians as Karl Rahner of Germany and France's Henri de Lubac to California's James Arenz, a promising young Ph.D. in astronautics who is a consultant at Lockheed. But the quality and character of the order varies considerably from province to province. The Jesuits of Colombia, for example, are extremely conservative...
...meeting, sponsored by West Germany's Paulist Society for Christian lay men, included such topnotch theologians as Jesuit Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler of Freiburg as well as three observers from a new Vatican secretariat for nonbelievers, which is headed by Franziskus Cardinal Konig of Vienna. The major Communist speakers were French Party Theoretician Roger Garaudy and one of Bulgaria's ranking ideologues, Asari Polikarov...
...Marx himself admitted, Communism is the "profane realization" of the "human base of Christendom," said Garaudy. "In 1965 we can ask, 'Do not the most advanced Christians begin to walk on the same road as we do?' " . Some of the Catholic scholars were doubtful. Asked Jesuit Rahner: "What guarantees can Communism give that when it comes to power it will not persecute the church as it has done in the past?" Physiologist Hans Schaefer of Heidelberg noted that there seemed to be more signs of change in Catholicism than in Communism. "In most of the speeches one hears...
...sacred in the midst of the profane, attempting to build the Kingdom of God by transforming the organisms of the secular city. In sum, the new church will be a return to the Biblical notion of the "salt of the earth." Germany's great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner argues that Christianity is already "in diaspora," as the triumphal mass church of Christendom's past evolves into...